You have to give Jurgen Appelo high marks for imaginative illustrations that catch the eye and convey the thought. He says this is one of his best illustrations ever; he may be right. He calls it his "celebration grid". I imagine Jurgen will be telling us a lot more about this if it catches on.
But what he says about these grid points is the more important take away:
- “Celebrate failure” is nonsense, because you shouldn’t celebrate failure that comes from mistakes (the red part). What you should celebrate is learning, and repeating good practices (the green parts).
- Pay-for-performance tends to drive people away from experiments, toward the safe practices on the right, with little learning as a result.
- Hierarchies are good at exploiting opportunities, and endlessly repeating the same practices; but they learn very little.
- Networks are good at exploring new opportunities, and failing half of the time, but they’re not good at efficiently repeating practices.
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